Ireland’s National Contemporary Art Fair

Mollie Douthit at RUBICON breaking down - building up

This summer, in a new temporary studio at her parents home, near Fargo in mid-Western America, Mollie had a chance to start something new. Most artists work with familiar things around them all the time, because they like it that way. The favorite tools, books, props and even the architecture of their workspace prompt them forward in their individual daily quest. Sometimes these visual reminders of where they have been and where they should go, become plain burdensome. Artists know they need to shake it off. Change is traumatizing for us humans but its also energizing, we all know that but it takes courage to go with it. This summer Mollie built a new language brick by brick, she constructed what she wanted to paint by mixing oil paint and applying it to some old wooden bricks. We love the small paintings exploring space, color and the act of painting that she has made of these. www.rubicongallery.ie & https://www.facebook.com/RubiconGallery/
[Image by Mollie Douthit, “Neurotic, oil on linen, 20x25cm courtesy of the artist & Rubicon]